City's problems are of its own making

2:13 PM,
Apr. 17, 2013

Written by

Chester Clark, Asheville

The April 7 AC-T attempts to pin Asheville's budget woes on the Republican legislature. That is not the case. The budget woes are the result of past city government practices. They felt it was acceptable to spend on pet projects. If a shortfall was predicted, just annex some more and tax them.The city's position is that Republicans are denying city residents self-government. Is that any different than the city annexing unwilling people into the city in order to tax them? How about the one-mile zoning jurisdiction outside the city?The city now takes a page from Obama's program. The sequester ...